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Angela Merkel is a politician, physicist, statesperson born in Hamburg (Germany).
Angela Dorothea Merkel ([aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany. Her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. Merkel obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. She then entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for the first democratically elected government of East Germany, led by Lothar de Maizière. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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| Born | 17 July 1954, Hamburg |
| Profession | politician, physicist, statesperson |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Employer | Zentralinstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Press and Information Office of the Federal Government of Germany |
| Educated at | Polytechnic Secondary School Templin, Extended Secondary School Templin, Leipzig University, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin |
| Spouse | Ulrich Merkel, Joachim Sauer |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of King Abdulaziz al Saud, Charlemagne Prize, Time Person of the Year, Nansen Refugee Award, Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal, Bavarian Order of Merit, German Media Award, O |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Capricorn |
| Nakshatra | Shravana (Pada 4) |
| Sun Sign | Cancer |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Scorpio |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Web) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 27 of them (9%) have the Moon in Capricorn, like Angela Merkel, and 18 (6%) share the Shravana Nakshatra — the most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets.
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Web) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Angela Merkel's Moon sign (Rashi) is Capricorn and the Nakshatra is Shravana, pada 4, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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